🛡️ Security  ·  Nginx  ·  5 min guide 🚫 Block VPNs, Tor & Proxies with Nginx using MyIP.casa 📅 March 28, 2026  ·  ~5 min read Allowing only "clean" users on your infrastructure is a real challenge. Whether you're trying to prevent spam, fraud, or large-scale scraping, filtering traffic from VPNs, proxies, or datacenter IPs is your first line of defense. In this guide, you'll learn how to integrate the MyIP.casa API directly into your Nginx configuration to block unwanted traffic in minutes. 1 🔧 Understanding auth_request Nginx provides a powerful module called ngx_http_auth_request_module . It allows you to send a subrequest to an internal API before granting access to your application. ✅  If the API returns 200 → access is allowed ❌  If the API returns 403 → access is denied This makes it perfect for real-time IP filtering . ...

  IP Geolocation & VPN Detection: The Invisible Layer of Modern Web Security   Why IP Intelligence Is No Longer Optional In 2026, every serious web application relies on IP intelligence as part of its security and analytics stack. Whether you operate a SaaS platform, an e-commerce store, a fintech application, or a content delivery system, understanding the origin and classification of incoming traffic is no longer a luxury — it is infrastructure. An IP address is more than a numeric identifier. It contains geographic, network, and behavioral signals that can determine whether a request originates from a residential connection, a hosting provider, a VPN, a Tor exit node, or a potentially automated bot. The question is no longer “Do I need IP data?” The question is “How reliable and privacy-safe is my IP intelligence provider?”   What an IP Geolocation API Actually Does A modern IP Geolocation API provides structured intelligence about an IPv4 or IPv6 address. This...